In the 2021 annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR), former PhD student Dr. Xuhui Bao and one other former Duke PhD student were elected out of a group of 16 to be NextGen Stars (https://www.aacr.org/meeting/aacr-annual-meeting-2021/nextgen-stars/) of this year to present in the Spotlight session in the…
A committee of biomedical graduate students has selected Professor of Pathology Laura Hale, MD PhD, as a distinguished nominee for the 2021 Gordon G. Hammes Faculty Teaching Award. For over 25 years, Dr. Hale has taught the Introduction to Systemic Histology and General Pathology courses, typically taken by graduate students…
4th year PhD candidate Yuanfan Yang writes, “The Lunar New Year, also called Chinese Spring Festival, is a time when families get together in Asian culture. Since traveling home is not encouraged at this moment to fight with COVID, our grad students Nicole, Jennifer and I celebrated the…
Claire Otero, a third year PhD candidate working in the Permar lab, has been inspiring the next generation of STEM students through her work with the Journal of Emerging Investigators, (JEI). Claire says, “I am currently working as one of three head copy editors with JEI, which means that I…
Zoe Loh, a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Pathology, has been awarded the Bass Instructor of Record Fellowship. The Bass fellowship supports high-quality teaching experiences for Ph.D. students where normal means of funding are unavailable. The fellowship provides a funded, semester-long, teaching opportunity for the PhD student to…
Claire Otero was chosen by a faculty panel to be awarded a 1k one time scholarship in the fall of 2020. The winning proposal that Claire submitted outlined a request for using the funds to advance her professional development through enrollment in online coursework to improve her skills in statistical…